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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30020	A discourse against unequal marriages viz, against old persons marrying with young, against persons marrying without the parents or friends consent, against persons marrying without their own consent.	Bufford, Samuel.	1696 (1696)	Wing B5364; ESTC R4795	32,369	134

Father of a Daughter in which he places so great a part of his Delight to take his deerest Jewel from him and violently to tear a lovely Blooming Sprig which he has Nurished with so much care and tenderness And though the Night promises well the Horse stands at the Gate the Doors open the Riding-Grown's on the Lady ready the Parson waiting and all things smile and favour the Design running very smothly a long yet in a short time after they are chain'd together the Magick ceaseth the Inchanted Castle Vanishes into fleeting Air the Tempest rises and whole showers of Afflictions fall thick imbittering all their Joys and destroying all their fine expectations Secondly Let them all consider what a high piece of Imprudence 't is for a man so dangerously to venture himself with a young Creature whose fickle Fancy turns like the wind and whose ungrounded Love oft upon such accounts meet with its cold and loathing Fits and curdles to Hatred in a few hours time which by the overswaying power of flattering and and threatning Friends may bring his Life at her Mercy Besides if he marry such when her Portion is not certain he commits a double Folly to no purpose and then his Love for Mony has left him in a very sweet pickle indeed But now to come a little closer to the business of Marrying without Friends consent and to shew the greatness of this Offence It always ought to be considered that Nature has given to Parents an extraordinary Power over their Children making far greater distinctions here than in any other Persons whatsoever And as this sort of Government is certainly the most natural of any so all other Governments seem rather to have been made in imitation of this First Method being for the most part Acquired by Usurpation and meer Force and increased by the Strength and Policy of more crafty heads As Parents Authority is great so ought Childrens Obedience to be great too and all the Amends and Satisfaction they are ever able to make for their bringing of them into the World Education Estates and the like is only a dutiful complyance to all their just Commands and a hearty desire of performing all their good Wishes Here it is that a Young Man shews his noble temper as well as humble disposition and 't is this that Heaven promises such peculiar Blessings to and that the World has so oft crown'd with its just Applauses As Marriage is the greatest concern and the Principal thing in which a Parent always takes most care and to see them well Matched is as much as to see 'em made happy So for a Son or a Daughter to be disobedient to this is the greatest piece of Rebellion as well as the highest point of Ingratitude they can well be guilty of This indeed has made many a Father and that with Justice too utterly cast off a hot-brain Son from all his future care and whose unlucky Curses have hit him so right and stuck so close to him ever after as have driven him to the utmost Miseries that attend Poverty and Rags The greatness of this Crime few young Persons consider especially since they are commonly so extreamly partial and self-conceited of their own Prudence and Judgment in choosing laughing at their own Parents and Friends thinking them all very unfit Persons to consult withal and not Good or Wise enough to choose for them but will run madly and furiously on big with the expectation of some wonderful Charms and extraordinary Bliss till they are soon foundred and lost like one that rides a fiery Steed that stops at nothing but runs at Swelling Rivers Craggy Rocks and Deadly Precipices till the Rider is hurl'd off and dashed in pieces These are the surious transports of Harebrain Youth who run mad for a Face and ruin themselves for a meer trifle If all things be throughly and carefully considered such a Crime as this must appear extraordinary soul and infamous and of such a Base Nature as can never be excused by an unconcerned Stander by such as I profess my self to be To have a kind indulgent Father whose softest Wishes and greatest Joys always attend his Sons good Fortune careful of him even to the raging Passion of Jealousie to bestow his utmost Pains use his greatest endeavours and still racking his contriving Head both day and night and all with the joyful expectation of his Sons being great and happy after his death and placing the greatest part of his own Happiness in his then to have a stubborn ungreateful Son to dash and overturn the whole Fabrick of his great Designs and by one unlucky Cast blast all his thriving hopes at once This is too much for a Father to bear and then 't is no wonder to see a Parent tho never so gentle and good Natured decree the utmost severitys and at one blow to lop off a Monstrous Excrescency That this Offence is punished with Disinheritance there 's scarce any thing more common and a Father in this case is very seldom much blamed or reckoned severe or unjust for when a Son or Daughter have by their Disobedience broke their Fathers Heart and and have thrown him off as a Person that has nothing to do with them he has a good and honest Plea to leave them to themselves Some Fathers indeed are often glad to find such an Excuse when they have a mind to put off their Daughters without Portions because they are sure that this will certainly vindicate their Proceedings to the inquiring World So that it is most apparent that this is a far greater Crime than most young People take it to be so that for a man of Ingenuity and Generosity to be guilty of such a fault to me seems very inconsistant Neither can I well conceive how a man of sense can ever excuse himself from such a prodigious piece of Ingratitude since that of all other Vices is justly esteem'd the basest and meanest and of such a Nature that even those Persons who have seemed to make their business and design to act and brag of all other Rogueries are yet ashamed of that and are very careful to conceal it as a thing that can get them no manner of Commendation or Applause not so much as among their rude Companions But let us now spend a thought or two about the Female Sex As for those Nature has seem'd to take a more peculiar Care in moulding them and making them more easie and compliant and of giving them a softer and more flexible Disposition sinely adapted to Obedience But to the Male it has afforded a stronger and more governing Nature and has given them more Power and Command Therefore Obedience and Compliance in the Female seems more convenient and necessary as being more suitable and natural And if all things be rightly considered they are not to expect to be their own Carvers in all things nor to have so large a right in choosing as Men Their Friends

I am sure afford matter enough for Ridicule for to tye Old Age and Youth together in the Matrimonial Noose is a thing that may well be ranked among the greater sorts of Extravagancies and which neither Nature Justice or the World can justifie them in As for Nature there can be no manner of pretence of Incitement from thence by either or both Parties for what can be more unnatural and preposterous than to go about to unite brisk and sprightly Youth with dull and sensless Age They might as well have undertaken to have joyned Summer and Winter Light to Darkness or any other such likely piece of Business as to think with all the Strength of Imagination to couple together a young lusty piece of Flesh with an old frigid Statue Then as for Justice it will never be satisfied for what greater breach can there be of that than to joyn two such different Natures together which will almost certainly be the Destruction of each other and to entail a stock of Misery upon Persons for term of Life But for the World to be sure that will never excuse them but I am confident will be as forward as possible to laugh at them and in sober sadness such Matches seem as if they were designed for the laughing purpose As for my part scarce any thing can seem more ridiculous for such Marriages look like some very strange extravagant Farce intended only to set all the Spectators into a huge fit of laughter And he that observes it well would think they rather design'd to make mirth and sport for others than to procure any manner of satisfaction to themselves For some persons are hugely pleased when they can say I 'm glad I have made you sport Sir But to come a little closer to the matter in hand I 'll suppose an Old Gentleman whose brisk days are over that has a mind to take a turn or two in the World and once more venture the strength of his Body upon that comfortable Text of Increase and Multiply What can be more unnatural than for such a dull Walking Clod of Earth an Old Doting Fellow of Sixty to fall a Dying Sighing and languishing for a Sprightly Girl of Sixteen Certainly it must be very comical to see how featly and trim our sweet Sir Courtly dresses himself up for a Ball or a Visit to his Mistress how Spruce Gay and Sparkish he appears with his New Tricks and Fooleries about him and withal how antickly fine he is in all his Accoutrements whilst a very Monkeys Face and a Deaths Head shall brave it out and be called a Beauty forsooth Nor can it be less pleasant to see how Ape-like he mimicks the Customs and Actions of the Young Sparks and shining Beaux of the Town whom he continually envyes and mortally hates and to see him how neatly he practises the Bon Mien the Good Grace the exact pointing of the Sword to his right Heel the genteel role in the Stocken the Allamode combing of the Wigg the careless placing of the Hat and the other noble accomplishments of the Town But the best of all is to see him addressing himself and paying his Devoirs to the bright Goddess his Mistress where he falls down right to shewing and commending all his Excellencies especially those which he fancies may be most pleasing and grateful to the young beautiful Sex He tells her He 's strong and lusty tough and sound at heart and that the Young Men of this present Age are all pitiful weak half-gotten Milksops neither lasting nor able to do service and all consumptive Puny Shrimps fit for nothing but to make sauce of His Mistress perhaps all the while stands listning being struck dumb with the Charming Rhetorick of this Venerable Mumpsimus But should Father Grey-Beard perceive any sort of Complacency in the Little Creature by simpering smiling or the like then he falls on a fresh to bragging of his Great and Mighty Feats of Activity as how well he can Run Leap and Ride and the like But if by chance at any time his Performances are found to be less than his Pretensions for Old Men oft make tryals then he comes off with an idle flam or excuse that 't is only a Fall a Strain or Hurt or some other accidental Misfortune but that he can still Drink and Wench with the best of the Town And thus he goes on with such extravagant Commendations of his own deer self all the while out-ranting a Common Gamester and out-hectoring a Town Bully The Poor Young Girl who knows little or nothing of the weighty concerns of Matrimony is perhaps caught at last being allured into the snare with the gay expectations of being Married forsooth and with the wonderful Honour of having a Husband before she has got over the long and tedious time of her teens or rather which is more probable with the flattering hopes of riding in a fine gilt Coach and Six or with the harmonious gingling of his Guinea's or lastly she is forced upon him by a seveer and ridged Father or some base mercinary Guardian who upon all accounts makes his Markets on her and sells her at what price he pleases Whilst jolly Sir Feeble Fain-would leaves no stone unturn'd but bestirs himself on all sides to obtain his desire is as busie as a Bee and as merry as the wanton thoughts of a brisk young Wife can make him But when the Wedding day is come then he 's all in raptures and is transported beyond measure with delicate hopes of a Sweet Encounter as he calls it Methinks this conjunction seems far unlike that of Castor and Pollux but rather like Mecesius tying the living and dead together But to what purpose is all this ado Or wdat is the consequence of such a hopeful Match but only the getting himself the right Worshipful Name of Fool or that more honourable Title of Cuckold And indeed these dignified Names are not very hard to be obtain'd nor much harder to be deserv'd For the last of these he is sure to have let his Wife be never so Chast and Vertuous except the World be wonderous civil in this Point which I may venture to assure him is no common Obligation For the Common People as the times go now have got an ugly scurvy trick of speaking as they think when they find no inducement to the contrary But this is not all from Sayings they 'll commonly fall to asking of Questions as What kindness she can have for such a Boyish piece of Gravity what real Comforts can she find in the loathsome Society of a fond jealous Dotard who suspects all that either look at or speak to her and dreads nothing like what he knows he deserves And what true satisfaction can she have by embracing a Statue and being all night by an unwholsom Neast of Diseases a Cold Lump of Clay whose utmost Power is only to encrease desires and set an Edge upon that Appetite which he can